AGI & Alignment
Alignment as an epistemic problem before an ethical one. How to teach an AI not to lie about what it knows.
3 gnoses
The five axes of the notebook. Each one groups gnoses by thematic affinity — alignment, consciousness, cognition, behavioral AI, operating philosophy. Not a rigid taxonomy; a reading focus.
Alignment as an epistemic problem before an ethical one. How to teach an AI not to lie about what it knows.
Hofstadter, Hawkins, recursion, thousand brains. What makes a system know that it knows.
Chomsky, Pinker, generative grammar, and why LLMs inherited an old problem.
Real cases of personalization at scale. Where hard math still beats GPU brute force.
Stoicism, first principles, and the thesis that happiness is solving problems.